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MassDevice Q&A: Greenberg Traurig’s Lori Cohen on defending product liability lawsuits

January 4, 2017 By Brad Perriello

When it comes to defending product liability lawsuits, it’s tough to top Greenberg Traurig’s Lori Cohen and her 98.3% winning percentage – she’s 57-for-58 lifetime in the courtroom.* Cohen, a shareholder at the law firm, is chairwoman of GT’s pharmaceutical, medical device & healthcare litigation practice and its trial practice group. Based in Atlanta, she’s saved her medical […]

Filed Under: Legal News, Product Liability Tagged With: Greenberg Traurig, MassDevice Q&A

Aethlon’s blood filtration device as broad countermeasure for infectious diseases

November 18, 2016 By Sarah Faulkner

In the midst of a devastating global crisis 2 years ago, a Ugandan physician was infected with Ebola in Sierra Leone as he was treating patients. He was hospitalized at the Frankfurt University Hospital and 12 days later he was unconscious, suffering from multiple organ failure. By the time Aethlon Medical (NSDQ:AEMD) got permission to use […]

Filed Under: Blood Management, Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Research & Development Tagged With: Aethlon Medical Inc., MassDevice Q&A

TransEnterix bets on haptics for Senhance robot-assisted surgery device

November 10, 2016 By Brad Perriello

TransEnterix (NYSE:TRXC) is betting that the haptics technology in its Senhance robot-assisted surgery platform will help it make headway against Intuitive Surgical (NSDQ:ISRG) and its 10-year lead on the market. CEO Todd Pope told MassDevice.com that the Senhance’s haptics – the system’s ability to convey a sense of touch and resistance to the surgeon – are an […]

Filed Under: Surgical Robotics, Wall Street Beat Tagged With: MassDevice Q&A, TransEnterix

New GI Dynamics CEO Schorer looks to reboot EndoBarrier

May 24, 2016 By Brad Perriello

New GI Dynamics (ASX:GID) CEO Scott Schorer is looking to reboot the company’s flagship EndoBarrier weight loss device, after a higher-than-expected rate of liver abscesses forced the halt of a clinical trial last year. The EndoBarrier device is a plastic gut sleeve designed to prevent the absorption of nutrients from food as it exits the stomach and […]

Filed Under: Clinical Trials, Diabetes, Weight loss Tagged With: GI Dynamics, MassDevice Q&A

For AirXpanders, a switch from 510(k) to de novo was no big deal

December 21, 2015 By Mark Hollmer

Scott Dodson didn’t worry when the FDA requested a call. Dodson is CEO of AirXpanders, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based company that had made a 510(k) submission for its AeroForm tissue expander, a device designed for post-mastectomy breast reconstructions that uses a gradual patient-controlled release of compressed gas to expand and stretch the skin/underlying muscle before […]

Filed Under: Women's Health Tagged With: AirXpanders, Breast Cancer, MassDevice Q&A

Medtech in the Southeast: 4 questions with SEMDA’s Jason Rupp

February 24, 2015 By Brian Johnson Leave a Comment

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The Southeastern Medical Device Association (SEMDA) is making a move to become 1 of the preeminent trade associations supporting the medical device industry.

The non-profit trade association – that supports and promotes medical device companies in the Southeastern United States – recently named former AdvaMed executive Jason Rupp as its first full time executive director.

Filed Under: News Well Tagged With: AdvaMed, MassDevice Q&A, Southeastern Medical Device Association (SEMDA)

Weight loss: ReShape Medical’s Duo balloon system looks to curb obesity

January 5, 2015 By Brian Johnson Leave a Comment

Weight loss: ReShape Medical's Duo balloon system looks to curb obesity

There doesn’t seem to be much stopping the obesity epidemic in the U.S., with ⅓ of the population considered dangerously overweight – but not for lack of trying, as evidenced by a glut of diets, pills, programs and surgeries aimed at helping people lose weight.

Filed Under: News Well, Weight loss Tagged With: Bariatrics, MassDevice Q&A, ReShape Lifesciences

HeartFlow wins FDA OK for non-invasive FFR system

December 2, 2014 By MassDevice Contributors Network Leave a Comment

HeartFlow wins FDA OK for non-invasive FFR system

By Brad Perriello and Mark Hollmer

Filed Under: Food & Drug Administration (FDA), News Well, Regulatory/Compliance Tagged With: De Novo Clearance, HeartFlow, MassDevice Q&A

DeviceTalks Podcast: B. Braun Medical CEO Caroll Neubauer on the medical device tax, Obamacare and innovation

December 2, 2014 By Brian Johnson

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Caroll Neubauer is a man of strong opinions.

Fortunately for us, the chairman & CEO of 175-year-old German medical products conglomerate B. Braun Medical isn’t afraid to share those opinions – even though he admits that they occaisionally get him into trouble. A case in point, as you’ll hear in this podcast, is Neubauer’s passionate opposition to the medical device excise tax.

Filed Under: Device Talks Podcasts, News Well Tagged With: B. Braun, MassDevice Q&A, Podcast/Feature Tease

Sequent Medical CEO Wilder bets on MicroBraids

October 27, 2014 By Brad Perriello Leave a Comment

Sequent Medical CEO Wilder bets on braids

Filed Under: News Well Tagged With: MassDevice Q&A, Neurovascular repair, Sequent Medical

Masimo’s Kiani on ‘good-enough innovation,’ Medtronic, Apple and 25 years of pushing the envelope

October 24, 2014 By Brian Johnson Leave a Comment

Masimo's Kiani on 'good-enough innovation,' Medtronic, Apple and 25 years of pushing the envelope

Filed Under: News Well, Patient Monitoring Tagged With: Apple, Covidien, Masimo, Masimo Foundation for Ethics Innovation & Competition in Healthcare, MassDevice Q&A, Patient Safety

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